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Reggie lol. Apart from canoe and jetski - no.

You are getting paranoid.

Daz, I see, I took it to mean in port ready for dispatch ahead of schedule rather than dispatched from port ahead of schedule. I don't know when it sailed, that is what I thought I had missed.

Hope you are right, I am sticking with the 26th, but with ships, tides and winds, travel times are not exact anyhow, the 26th with winds in the wrong direction can easily become the 29th.

Whichever way I agree it is exciting.

Daz, I thought the 26th June onwards, did I miss something here? Left port early?

PS, incredibly their CEO gets a payment of over 1m Aussie dollars if it all goes to plan - their shareholders must be furious.

A string of Leo Lithium RNS have been released, the Ganfeng takeover is progressing and the government have released permits for them.

In the presentation it mentions the binding agreement for additional concessions so we should see some progress with this contract soon - and of course the second payment.

Painless usual cabin fever waiting for the next update.

Still a great place to be.

Halfway through June should be some updates over the following weeks. Glad this one is not a month early otherwise it becomes an expectation.

1950s that was from, bit different to Tin Tin and Popeye

How did they get away with that as a kids programme.

Seaman Staines has been and gone.

Jaybike, next topic sat navs in trucks. Easy to get lost on that straight cotton road.

The only people who will have any concerns around the time the ship arrives will be the specialist unloading team and hauliers. We did not micro manage or be involved in that arrangement, it is down to them to organise their work around the ships arrival and docking. Only a complete novice or fool would get involved in that arrangement.

So apart from them it is only you who is concerned. The cargo will be insured.

Sheffy, agree with the basher - good luck.

A resource upgrade is due over the following weeks.

Reggie T, two roles employed in a large national and self employed all in the same industry. Mining, industrial energy supplies, product manufacturing, haulage, landfill energy, various other product sales, recycling, probably missed a load of stuff as it was a big company, seconded all over the place. From a construction family, useful at times, obviously did a load of bits and bobs over the years there.

Just like anyone else in those types of business. We were managers but had to be able to do everything - which we did.

I have imported goods into the UK, thousands of tonnes and also imported and unloaded goods outside of the UK.

Everything is done by different professionals/businesses. So in the UK mine was through factors and importers so I had no direct contact.

Outside of the UK through a factor and shipping company, to be honest until the ship arrived in harbour to be unloaded we had no interest it was not our responsibility. Unloading was a different entity a Stevedore using our crane then a private haulage company back and forth until empty

But I cannot imagine anyone bothering to track a ship, they won't be interested until the docking date.

Sheffy - getting out of the ground is the current priority.

Shipping is pretty standard from a port to another port, not some landing craft type ship timing the tide to unload on a beach or rock, like some of our remote power stations, so not much concern there.

If there is a delay anywhere along the line, apart from the wet season it is likely to be from an unexpected source.

So far we are ahead of schedule.

No great worry if it went into full production a month late - just nice to be completed on or ahead of time.

No sweat 💦

I agree regarding mechanical engineers - at least we would assume so.

Engineer, unless you are old and senile and your career is all long ago, I would not be so arrogant and proud.

The World turns, science and inventions continue and a raft of superstars in their field become obsolete.

It has happened to better people than us.

At the end looking back it is a good time to conclude.

It worries me when I see people of such importance trying to assemble a flat pack.

Matt slim, come on you are bound to want to know what Starmer and Sunak ate for breakfast?

What greater excitement is there in life?

I mean look at all of the media outlets, only 10 things going on in the entire world worth reporting in detail and someone to pin the blame on for each of them - it is testimony to our education system that so many tune into this stuff and believe it.

Hope, you will have to do a couple of weekly posts in the downtime to break the boredom of the wait!

LSE will be admiring you - lol